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Sarah Kolinovsky / ABC News:
Biden says he did not see a way to withdraw from Afghanistan without ‘chaos ensuing’ — In an exclusive ABC News interview, Biden opens up on his decision to withdraw. — In an exclusive interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, and the president's first since the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban …
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Live updates: U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan until all American citizens are evacuated, Biden tells ABC News
Live updates: U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan until all American citizens are evacuated, Biden tells ABC News
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Molly Nagle / ABC News:
US troops will stay until all Americans are out of Afghanistan, even if past Aug. 31 deadline: Biden to ABC News
US troops will stay until all Americans are out of Afghanistan, even if past Aug. 31 deadline: Biden to ABC News
Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
US allies deeply concerned by Biden's detachment
US allies deeply concerned by Biden's detachment
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Biden's ‘I Am Not Sending My Boy Back There’ Comment in Context
Biden's ‘I Am Not Sending My Boy Back There’ Comment in Context
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Ahmad Massoud / Washington Post:
The mujahideen resistance to the Taliban begins now. But we need help. — Ahmad Massoud is the leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan. — In 1998, when I was 9 years old, my father, the mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, gathered his soldiers in a cave in the Panjshir Valley of northern Afghanistan.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
A primer on false narratives about Afghanistan — There are many alarmist headlines pronouncing with certitude what has occurred or will occur in Afghanistan. Many are premature — or alternatively, out of date. Others ignore information now available to us that debunks fanciful explanations …
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CNBC:
Ousted Afghan President Ashraf Ghani resurfaces in UAE after fleeing Kabul, Emirati government says — Ousted Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who fled his country as its capital Kabul was being overtaken by Taliban fighters, is now in the United Arab Emirates.
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Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
Kinder, gentler Taliban murder woman in the streets for not wearing a burqa
Kinder, gentler Taliban murder woman in the streets for not wearing a burqa
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Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
This Is Not the Taliban 2.0 — When the Taliban first sacked Kabul 25 years ago …
This Is Not the Taliban 2.0 — When the Taliban first sacked Kabul 25 years ago …
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U.S. Embassy / U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan:
Security Alert: U.S. Embassy Kabul (August 18, 2021) — U.S. government-provided flights are departing. U.S. citizens, LPRs, and their spouses and unmarried children (under age 21) should consider travelling to Hamid Karzai International Airport. You should plan to enter the airport at Camp Sullivan.
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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
An evasive White House quietly hints that not all Americans will make it out of Afghanistan
An evasive White House quietly hints that not all Americans will make it out of Afghanistan
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Biden State Dept Moved to Abolish Crisis Response Bureau Months Before Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan
Biden State Dept Moved to Abolish Crisis Response Bureau Months Before Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan
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Tara Copp / Defense One:
2,000 Evacuated from Kabul in a 24-Hour Span, Pentagon Says
2,000 Evacuated from Kabul in a 24-Hour Span, Pentagon Says
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Danika Fears / The Daily Beast:
Pentagon's Top General: We Had No Idea Afghan Army Would Collapse in 11 Days
Pentagon's Top General: We Had No Idea Afghan Army Would Collapse in 11 Days
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Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:
Taliban Block Routes to Kabul Airport, Hampering Evacuations From Afghanistan
Taliban Block Routes to Kabul Airport, Hampering Evacuations From Afghanistan
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Vaccines' protection against virus infection is waning, C.D.C. studies suggest. — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released three studies on Wednesday that federal officials said provided evidence that booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna coronavirus vaccines …
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HHS News releases:
Joint Statement from HHS Public Health and Medical Experts on COVID-19 Booster Shots
Joint Statement from HHS Public Health and Medical Experts on COVID-19 Booster Shots
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- Raheem J. Kassam / The National Pulse:
EXC: Joe Biden's State Dept Halted A Trump-Era ‘Crisis Response’ Plan Aimed At Avoiding Benghazi-Style Evacuations Just MONTHS Before Taliban Takeover. — Joe Biden's State Department moved to cancel a critical State Department program aimed at providing swift and safe evacuations of Americans …
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- Raheem J. Kassam / The National Pulse:
Stunning Poll Reveals Trump Would Win Election Held Today, As Nearly 1 In 10 Democrats ‘Regret’ Their 2020 Vote.
Stunning Poll Reveals Trump Would Win Election Held Today, As Nearly 1 In 10 Democrats ‘Regret’ Their 2020 Vote.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How Pelosi is trying to jam the rebels threatening to tank Biden's agenda — Incredibly, the nine conservative Democrats who have been threatening to derail passage of President Biden's $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill are still at it. They're still demanding a vote only on the bipartisan …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Poll finds growing support for voter ID requirements
Poll finds growing support for voter ID requirements
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Democrats have finally identified the greatest threat to voting rights — the Supreme Court
Democrats have finally identified the greatest threat to voting rights — the Supreme Court
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New York Times:
Kushner Friend Who Was Pardoned by Trump Is Charged in New York — Ken Kurson, the former editor of The New York Observer, has been charged with two felonies. Prosecutors said he installed spyware on his former wife's computer in order to surveil her. — Seven months after he was pardoned …
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Oli Coleman / Page Six:
Larry David ‘screamed’ at Alan Dershowitz at grocery store over Trump ties — It seems that Alan Dershowitz's ties to the Trump administration have made him persona non grata among the Martha's Vineyard elite — including Larry David. — A Page Six spy spotted the Harvard Law professor …
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Douglas London / Just Security:
CIA's Former Counterterrorism Chief for the Region: Afghanistan, Not An Intelligence Failure — Something Much Worse — While it's certainly convenient to depict the shock and miscalculation U.S. officials claim over Afghanistan's tragic, rapid fall to the Taliban as an intelligence failure, the reality is far worse.
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Biden to require nursing homes get staff vaccinated or lose federal funds — Surgeon general on Covid-19 boosters: The time is now — (CNN)The Biden administration will direct all nursing homes to require their staff be vaccinated against Covid-19 in order to continue receiving Medicare …
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Claire McNear / The Ringer:
“A Smile With Sharp Teeth”: Mike Richards's Rise to ‘Jeopardy!’ Host Sparks Questions About His Past — The ‘Jeopardy!’ host search is finally over. New reporting reveals that concerns about Richards and the show's selection process remain. — One day in the fall of 2013, Mike Richards called Ken Jennings.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump promoted vaccines on Fox. Then the host goaded him into bashing boosters. — Wednesday was a big day in the fight against the coronavirus. It's the day the U.S. government launched its campaign to get Americans to take booster shots for the vaccines, amid the increasingly challenging situation brought on by the delta variant.
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Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Mississippi Quarantines 20,000 With 5,993 Students Positive For COVID; Teen Deaths Rise — With both siblings wearing backpacks, Mkayla Robinson put her arms around her little brother, and the two smiled for a photo on Friday, Aug. 6., as they prepared to leave home to start her final year …
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Jeffrey Morris / Covid Data Science:
Israeli data: How can efficacy vs. severe disease be strong when 60% of hospitalized are vaccinated? — A surge involving the rapidly-transmitting Delta variant in heavily vaccinated countries has led to much hand-wringing that the vaccines are not effective against Delta, or vaccine efficacy wanes after 4-6 months.
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New York Times:
The Biden administration will use a federal civil rights office to deter states from banning universal masking in classrooms. — The Biden administration, escalating its fight with Republican governors who are blocking local school districts from requiring masks to protect against the coronavirus …
Heather Long / Washington Post:
The U.S. could be on the verge of a productivity boom, a game-changer for the economy — Rapid adoption of robots and artificial intelligence during the pandemic combined with a rebound in government investment is making some economists optimistic about a return of a 1990s economy with widespread benefits
Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE:
Socialist Publication Current Affairs Fires Staff for Doing Socialism — “We were fired by the editor-in-chief of a socialist magazine for trying to start a worker co-op,” five fired staffers wrote in a letter posted on Tuesday. — Lauren Kaori Gurley — Nathan J. Robinson …
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John Sexton / HotAir:
Chris Rufo more than held his own in this NY Times interview on Critical Race Theory — Afghanistan is still taking up all the oxygen in the room but there are other stories out there. Today the NY Times published a podcast/interview with CRT opponent Christopher Rufo hosted by Jane Coaston.
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Renuka Rayasam / Politico:
Hitting the vax ceiling — BOOST, THERE IT IS — Are Covid booster shots going to become a yearly ritual, or is it going to be three jabs and you're out? Now that the Biden administration is finalizing a plan that would call for Americans to get a third vaccine dose eight months after their last one …